Great, with one annoyance
Sun Jan 08 2023 frandad729GREAT games, if you are a solitaire fan at all. To me, most of the games remind me of Freecell, with interesting twists and mechanics to make each unique.
My one gripe is that all variants lock up a lot when selecting a card (typically at least once per game). The solution is to switch away and then back to the app, but I’d rather it just didn’t lock up.
A Fantastic Set
Tue Oct 11 2022 KarzynI’ve already played all the Solitaire games that Zachtronics had previously published but having them together in one mobile app is so convenient. If you're familiar with these games then you already know what you're getting, but if you aren't then you'll be delighted with some lovely games for chilling out but still getting your brain working a bit. Each game has a fun twist to keep you coming back for one more deal. It's just a lovely way to relax with enough variety to keep it interesting.
If you have played Zachtronics Solitaire games before you need to give Fortune's Foundation a try. It's quite challenging but possibly their very best variant ever. Cards can stack in either direction but you can only move one card at a time. This leads to planning out how you can shuffle stacks back and forth between ascending and descending order. You get a free cell, but it blocks removing cards from the board. It's incredibly deep. I'm kind of obsessed.
Zachtronics will be deeply missed, but I appreciate this parting collection.
Great games let down by subpar port
Tue Dec 27 2022 Tanner HendricksonThese are undoubtedly great solitaire games by one of my favorite game designers… but in a very barebones port that is honestly a pretty bad experience on my iPhone Mini. Pillarboxed interface, minuscule text. It feels bad to have to play a mobile solitaire game in landscape when so much horizontal screen space is wasted.
On top of that, they don’t have the best track record of app support on iOS (RIP Spacechem and TIS-100P) and the last update definitely didn’t eliminate the possibility of losing games in progress when app switching.
Bottom line: great solitaire variants let down by a subpar port, at least for phones. iPad probably fares better.
So poorly done I want to avoid their other products
Fri Mar 03 2023 Lil PipsI’ve sadly purchased a few of Zachtronics games previously, but that ends here.
This is made with such lack of skill and care (when they are obviously very talented) that it leaves an unbelievable bad taste in my mouth.
You don’t care about iOS? No one is forcing you to put these “games” on the platform. This one is obviously abandoned, but they never cared about it in the first place.
Bugs? Wrong orientation, incredibly small text on both iPhone and iPad, it “loses focus” sometimes and you can’t interact with the app at all until you switch to another app and then back (that has been present SINCE LAUNCH!), the shenzen game was causing problems on lower end devices? So the easiest and laziest and quickest fix they could do was just force it to around 3fps on ALL DEVICES.
Last Straw? Games that are luck-based, have “had work done on them so they are skill-based and winnable”…wellllll nope. You will frequently not have a single move in some of these games…not a single move.
Truly amazing!
Fri Oct 07 2022 Ian S. These are some of the most fun and creative takes on solitaire I’ve ever played. I love how challenging they all are, once I understood their strategies, I find myself daydreaming about playing more when I’m in situations where I’m unable to lol. Anyway, I’m stoked how fast Zach fixed the initial issues with music stopping or PiP videos halting and the game becoming unresponsive, because this is the perfect game to play on the bus while listening to some choice tunes. 10/10!
Great games—bad iPhone scaling
Tue Oct 18 2022 BcgroomBought to play Sigmar’s Garden and found that it’s a bit too small on iPhone. The text is impossible to read (luckily the game doesn’t need reading if you already know it) and tap targets are small. Kind of just feels like they took the desktop version and didn’t adapt it for mobile at all.
Kabufuda Solitaire!
Sun Dec 04 2022 JaySixBTDEliza was phenomenal, but what made Eliza even better was Kabufuda! I’m so happy to be able to play this solitaire variant again.
Unfortunately, the app is not scaled for iPhones, which is really maddening. The size of the font is unreadable, and the lettering on some of the solitaire cards is not readable on an iPhone. 🥺
Hopefully the devs can make the adjustment.
Best of the best
Wed Jan 18 2023 NewrandomnessrulesThese are some of the best solitaire games I've ever played, each one very unique but they all require careful choices and foresight. Fortunes Foundation is hard to conquer but once you understand how to win you won't be able to stop playing.
Fantastic
Wed Oct 12 2022 revertTSThis is wonderful and unexpected. Thank you! It would be nice if I could tap to select a card then tap where to place it as opposed to having to drag.
An incredible collection
Thu Oct 13 2022 Thursday_NXTAll of the Solitaire games in here are excellent, but special shoutout to Fortune’s Foundation for being so unique and fun. No other iOS Solitaire game is as polished as this one.
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